Hi Beverly, I really like your compositions. You lead my eye around the page. I’m drawn to all the leaves in their various stages: fluffy spring green, variegated, and dying. One thing I might have done is bring that brown leaf in front of the red beet slightly farther to the right to break up the large dark red shape. Also, I’m curious as to your cropping to the edge of the page. Do you plan that out? or does the drawing just end up that way as you run out of paper? In any case it seems to work for you. I tend to want to draw the entire plant then crop with matting if I decide not to include everything. Not that either way is better.
Hi Beverly, I really like your compositions. You lead my eye around the page. I’m drawn to all the leaves in their various stages: fluffy spring green, variegated, and dying. One thing I might have done is bring that brown leaf in front of the red beet slightly farther to the right to break up the large dark red shape. Also, I’m curious as to your cropping to the edge of the page. Do you plan that out? or does the drawing just end up that way as you run out of paper? In any case it seems to work for you. I tend to want to draw the entire plant then crop with matting if I decide not to include everything. Not that either way is better.